{"id":463208,"date":"2025-02-26T19:09:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T00:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=463208"},"modified":"2025-02-26T19:09:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T00:09:35","slug":"new-york-rangers-defenceman-adam-fox-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/02\/26\/new-york-rangers-defenceman-adam-fox-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers Defenceman Will Miss Time After Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/02\/25\/nhl-rumours-update-on-new-york-rangers-blueliner\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> suffered a big blow to their lineup. News of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/foxad01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Fox<\/a> injury emerged on Wednesday afternoon. The Norris Trophy-winning defenceman was placed on injured reserve <a  href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/26\/sports\/adam-fox-lands-on-ir-in-rangers-pre-trade-deadline-crusher\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with an upper-body injury<\/a>. Fox will miss time, but there&#8217;s hope he can return before the end of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:ylo62fgxbhgnyzbh5sxp3akm\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lj4f6xdvt225\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreic2p6mv5k26ybbukbxgcqa2xded3tznir5l7mnae2ezo6daxjenle\">\n<p lang=\"en\">#NYR putting Adam Fox (upper) on IR, source says, but there&#39;s optimism he&#39;ll be available for final weeks of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:ylo62fgxbhgnyzbh5sxp3akm?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arthur Staple (@artstape.bsky.social)<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:ylo62fgxbhgnyzbh5sxp3akm\/post\/3lj4f6xdvt225?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2025-02-26T22:06:42.356Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>New York Rangers Adam Fox Suffers Injury and Put on IR<\/h2>\n<p>The Jericho, New York native suffered an injury after colliding with the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/02\/03\/new-york-islanders-lose-superstar-foward-indefinitely\/\" target=\"_self\"> New York Islanders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/macleky01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle MacLean<\/a>. He left the ice holding shoulder and he&#8217;ll now be out at least seven days as per the rules of putting someone on the IR. The Rangers did win 5-1 over their rivals. However, it was a costly loss to their blueline.<\/p>\n<p>Fox has only played for the Rangers across his six-year NHL career. He has five goals and 43 assists for 48 points in 58 games this season for New York. The 27-year-old has a Corsi for of 57.7 and a relative Corsi of 14.4.<\/p>\n<p>Fox has 58 goals and 298 assists for 356 points in 415 career games. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/31\/flames-and-flyers-exchange-former-1st-round-picks-and-more-in-big-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">Calgary Flames<\/a> originally drafted him in the third round, 66th overall of the 2016 NHL Draft. However, he was traded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/02\/23\/nhl-rumours-hurricanes-offer-rantanen-massive-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>, who ended up dealing him to the Blueshirts.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran defenceman won the Norris Trophy in 2020-21 and is a three-time NHL All-Star.<\/p>\n<h3>What The Adam Fox Injury Means<\/h3>\n<p>The is a massive loss for the Rangers, who are two points off the final wild card spot in the Eastern Conference. New York also had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/milleka01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K&#8217;Andre Miller<\/a> in the same game. However, there is no update on Miller.<\/p>\n<p>These injuries could affect general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/drurych01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Drury<\/a> and his trade deadline plans. New York might have to keep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lindgry01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Lindgren<\/a> so the team has some cover. Lindgren was thought to be on his way out. However, he may need to stay.<\/p>\n<p>New York called up Matthew Robertson from the AHL to fill in the roster spot. The Rangers now have to forge on without a vital defender.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Dennis Schneidler-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Rangers suffered a big blow to their lineup. News of the Adam Fox injury emerged on Wednesday afternoon. The Norris Trophy-winning defenceman was placed on injured reserve with an upper-body injury. Fox will miss time, but there&#8217;s hope he can return before the end of the season. #NYR putting Adam Fox (upper) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":463211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,6671,14,34,4548],"tags":[2309,3207,3510,6259],"class_list":["post-463208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-rangers","category-news","category-nhl","tag-adam-fox","tag-kandre-miller","tag-matthew-robertson","tag-new-york-rangers-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463212,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463208\/revisions\/463212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}